macrumors 601

try this - set a folder icon to the icon you want the windows drive (can be any folder anywhere). Enable "show hidden files" (using terminal or Cocktail's free trial) then inside that folder should be an externsionless "Icon" file. Copy that to a thumbdrive or a cd anything that's readable in Windows.

Boot into Windows

Copy the "Icon" file to the root of the C: drive (you might have to enable hidden folders)

In "theory" this should work. The FAT32 thing does would with thumbdrives.

macrumors 6502

try this - set a folder icon to the icon you want the windows drive (can be any folder anywhere). Enable "show hidden files" (using terminal or Cocktail's free trial) then inside that folder should be an externsionless "Icon" file. Copy that to a thumbdrive or a cd anything that's readable in Windows.

Boot into Windows

Copy the "Icon" file to the root of the C: drive (you might have to enable hidden folders)

In "theory" this should work. The FAT32 thing does would with thumbdrives.

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Sounds like a plan, I did spend some time trying to do this, and failed dismally. This at least feels like a more plausible track.

One question, why wouldn't you copy the Icon file from OS-X if you have a FAT32 partiition?

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